# Deaths in October 2008
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The following is a list of notable deaths in October 2008.
Entries for each day are listed alphabetically by surname. A typical entry lists information in the following sequence:
* Name, age, country of citizenship at birth, subsequent country of citizenship (if applicable), reason for notability, cause of death (if known), and reference.

## October 2008
### 1

* Ian Collier, 65, British singer and actor (Doctor Who).
* Robert Couturier, 103, French sculptor.
* J. Don Ferguson, 74, American actor (Norma Rae, Maximum Overdrive, Major League: Back to the Minors), leukemia.
* Bill Flagg, 79, British Anglican prelate, Bishop of Peru (1973–1977).
* Daphney Hlomuka, 59, South African actress, kidney cancer.
* Val Jansante, 88, American football player (Pittsburgh Steelers).
* Detlef Lewe, 69, German canoeist, 1972 Olympic bronze medalist, after brief illness.
* House Peters, Jr., 92, American actor (Mr. Clean), pneumonia.
* Nick Reynolds, 75, American folk musician (The Kingston Trio), acute respiratory disease.
* Arlene Sherman, 61, American television producer (Sesame Street).
* LeJuan Simon, 27, Trinidadian athlete, complications of pulmonary hypertension.
* Poornam Viswanathan, 88, Indian actor, multiple organ failure.
* Boris Yefimov, 109, Russian political cartoonist.

### 2

* George Anselevicius, 85, Lithuanian-born American architect.
* Bonnie Bluh, 82, American feminist writer, aortic dissection.
* Choi Jin-sil, 39, South Korean actress, suicide by hanging.
* Rob Guest, 58, British-born New Zealand actor and singer, stroke.
* Anna Hagemann, 89, German Olympic athlete.
* Shaharom Husain, 88, Malaysian historian.
* Kataejar Jibas, 55, Marshallese politician, mayor of Bikini Atoll since 2007, injuries from a car accident.
* John Sjoberg, 67, British footballer (Leicester City F.C.).

### 3

* Zulfiqar Ahmed, 82, Pakistani cricketer, cardiac arrest.
* Mahir al-Zubaydi, Iraqi al-Qaeda leader, shot.
* Geoffrey Davis, 74, Australian doctor.
* Jean Foyer, 87, French politician, Minister of Justice (1962–1967) and Minister of Health (1972–1973).
* Frederick Charles Hurrell, 80, British Royal Air Force officer.
* Hugo Ironside, 90, British soldier.
* Johnny "J", 39, American hip-hop producer, apparent suicide by jumping.
* Rajendra Singh Lodha, 66, Indian accountant, chairman of the Birla Corporation, heart attack.
* George Thomson, Baron Thomson of Monifieth, 87, British businessman and journalist, MP (1952–1973), viral infection.

### 4

* Harry Bath, 83, Australian National Rugby League player and coach, after long illness.
* Ted Briggs, 85, British sailor, last survivor of the sinking of HMS Hood.
* Craig Fertig, 66, American football player and coach, kidney failure.
* Al Gallodoro, 95, American jazz musician, after brief illness.
* Derek Jones, 81, British colonial official, Hong Kong Secretary for Economic Services (1973–1976), Environment (1976–1981).
* Saul Laskin, 90, Canadian politician, first mayor of Thunder Bay, heart attack.
* Peter Vansittart, 88, British writer.

### 5

* Ernest Beutler, 80, American hematologist, lymphoma.
* Beth A. Brown, 39, American NASA astrophysicist, pulmonary embolism.
* Kim Chan, 90, Chinese-born American actor (Kung Fu: The Legend Continues, The Fifth Element, Lethal Weapon 4).
* Leopoldo Elia, 82, Italian legal scholar, President of the Constitutional Court, Minister of Foreign Affairs (1994).
* Servando González, 85, Mexican documentary film director.
* Mohamed Moumou, 43, Iraqi al-Qaeda second-in-command, shot.
* Howard G. Munson, 84, American judge.
* Iba N'Diaye, 80, Senegalese painter, heart failure.
* Ken Ogata, 71, Japanese actor (The Ballad of Narayama), liver cancer.
* Hans Richter, 89, German actor and director (Emil and the Detectives).
* Lloyd Thaxton, 81, American television personality, multiple myeloma.

### 6

* Murad Abro, 42, Pakistani politician, road accident.
* Peter Avery, 85, British scholar and Iranian specialist.
* Larry Belcher, 61, American politician, member of Kentucky House of Representatives (1999–2002, since 2006), car accident.
* Paul Clark, 68, British judge.
* Peter Cox, 82, Australian politician.
* Paavo Haavikko, 77, Finnish poet and playwright, after long illness.
* Olga Kaljakin, 57, American art director and film poster artist (The Last Samurai, Field of Dreams, Moonstruck), emphysema.
* Nadia Nerina, 80, South African ballerina.
* Janaka Perera, 62, Sri Lankan general and politician, bomb blast injuries.
* Anne Margrethe Strømsheim, 94, Norwegian resistance member.
* Sir John Young, 88, Australian jurist, Chief Justice of Victoria (1974–1991), Lieutenant-Governor of Victoria (1974–1995).

### 7

* Peter Copley, 93, British actor.
* Cozzene, 28, American Thoroughbred racehorse, euthanized.
* Bruce Dal Canton, 66, American baseball player, esophageal cancer.
* Leslie Hardman, 95, British Army Jewish chaplain at liberation of Bergen-Belsen.
* George Kissell, 88, American baseball coach (St. Louis Cardinals), car accident.
* Ivar Mathisen, 88, Norwegian Olympic silver medal-winning (1948) sprint canoer.
* DeWayne McKinney, 47, American ATM entrepreneur wrongfully convicted of murder, traffic accident.
* George Emil Palade, 95, Romanian cell biologist, Nobel Prize laureate (Physiology or Medicine, 1974).
* Princess Rooney, 28, American Thoroughbred racehorse, euthanized.
* Miles Richmond, 85, British painter.

### 8

* David Akutagawa, 71, Japanese Canadian martial artist, heart attack.
* Chicão, 59, Brazilian footballer.
* Jim Drake, 77, British rugby league player.
* Bob Friend, 70, British newscaster, cancer.
* Gidget Gein, 39, American bassist (Marilyn Manson), drug overdose.
* Pete Goegan, 74, Canadian ice hockey player (Detroit Red Wings, Minnesota North Stars, New York Rangers).
* Tanya Halesworth, 73, Australian television news presenter, cancer.
* Eileen Herlie, 90, British-born American actress (Hamlet, All My Children), complications of pneumonia.
* Norman Hogg, Baron Hogg of Cumbernauld, 70, British politician, MP (1979–1997), cancer.
* Cliff Malone, 83, Canadian ice hockey player (Montreal Canadiens), heart failure.
* Les McCrabb, 93, American baseball player (Philadelphia Athletics).

### 9

* Karl Albert, 87, German philosopher and professor.
* Albert Hall, 74, American hammer throw champion, complications from Alzheimer's disease.
* Milan Kymlicka, 72, Czech-born Canadian composer and conductor.
* David Lett, 69, American winemaker, heart failure.
* Bert Loxley, 74, British footballer and manager, after long illness.
* Ardeshir Mohasses, 70, Iranian illustrator and cartoonist, heart attack.
* Judith Wachs, 70, American musician (Voice of the Turtle) and promoter of Sephardic music, cancer.

### 10

* James Benson, 63, American entrepreneur (SpaceDev), brain tumor.
* Alton Ellis, 70, Jamaican singer, lymphatic cancer.
* Sid Hudson, 93, American baseball player.
* Muhammad Aslam Khan Khattak, 100, Pakistani politician and diplomat, after long illness.
* Gerald Leeman, 86, American wrestler, Olympic silver medallist (1948).
* Kazuyoshi Miura, 61, Japanese businessman, murder suspect, suicide by hanging.
* Javad Nurbakhsh, 81, Iranian spiritual leader.
* Jiřina Petrovická, 85, Czech actress.
* Alexey Prokurorov, 44, Russian cross-country skier, car accident.
* Leo Rosner, 90, Polish-born Australian musician, Holocaust survivor in Schindler's List, complications of Alzheimer's disease.
* Summing, 30, American thoroughbred racehorse and sire, natural causes.
* Kurt Weinzierl, 77, Austrian actor.

### 11

* Vija Artmane, 79, Latvian actress, complications from strokes.
* Daniel Awdry, 84, British politician, MP for Chippenham (1962–1979).
* William Claxton, 80, American photographer, complications of heart failure.
* Kevin Foster, 39, American baseball player, renal cancer.
* Jörg Haider, 58, Austrian politician, Governor of Carinthia (1989–1991, since 1999), leader of the FPÖ and BZÖ, car accident.
* Russ Hamilton, 76, British singer.
* Ernst-Paul Hasselbach, 42, Surinamese-born Dutch television producer, car accident.
* Neal Hefti, 85, American composer ("Batman Theme", "The Odd Couple Theme"), heart attack.
* William J. Higginson, 69, American poet and translator.
* Randy Johnston, 20, American male model, accidental drug overdose.
* Hayley Marie Kohle, 26, Canadian fashion model, suicide by jumping.
* Badar Munir, 68, Pakistani actor, complications of cardiac arrest.
* Scarlett, 13, American stray cat, name source of the Scarlett Award for Animal Heroism, animal euthanasia.
* Mark Shivas, 70, British film and television producer, Head of BBC Drama (1988–1993).
* Allan Spear, 71, American politician, first openly gay member of Minnesota Senate (1973–2000), complications of heart surgery.
* Gil Stratton, 86, American television and radio sportscaster (Los Angeles Rams, Santa Anita Racetrack), heart failure.
* Nelson Symonds, 75, Canadian jazz guitarist, heart attack,

### 12

* Sukha Bose, 77, Indian cricket umpire.
* Lenvil Elliott, 57, American football player (San Francisco 49ers, Cincinnati Bengals), heart attack.
* Chuck Evans, 41, American football player (Minnesota Vikings), heart failure.
* Sir Dick Franks, 88, British Head of the Secret Intelligence Service (1979–1982).
* Roy K. Moore, 94, American FBI agent known for civil rights investigations, pneumonia.
* Cliff Nobles, 67, American pop musician, cancer.
* Rudolf Pangsepp, 87, Estonian book designer and artist.
* James E. Reilly, 60, American soap opera writer, complications from cardiac surgery.
* John R. Reilly, 80, American lawyer, adviser to six Democratic presidential candidates, cancer.
* Allan Rosenfield, 75, American physician, dean of Columbia University School of Public Health (1986–2008), amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
* Emil Steinberger, 79, American physician, lung cancer.

### 13

* Khryss Adalia, 62, Filipino film, television and stage director, colorectal cancer.
* Pablo Barrachina Estevan, 95, Spanish bishop of Orihuela-Alicante (1954–1989).
* Alexei Cherepanov, 19, Russian ice hockey player, acute cardiomyopathy.
* Arthur J. Crowns, 86, American politician and academic lawyer.
* Guillaume Depardieu, 37, French actor, pneumonia.
* Antonio José González Zumárraga, 83, Ecuadorian cardinal, stomach cancer.
* Luciana Pignatelli, 73, Italian socialite, suicide by drug overdose.
* Matthew John Rinaldo, 77, American politician, member of the House of Representatives (1973–1993), Parkinson's disease.
* Paul Rogers, 87, American politician, member of the House of Representatives (1957–1979), lung cancer.
* Frank Rosenthal, 79, American gaming executive, sports handicapper, inspiration for the 1995 film Casino, heart attack.
* Eduardus Sangsun, 65, Indonesian bishop of Ruteng, heart attack.
* Françoise Seigner, 80, French comedian and actress, pancreatic cancer.
* Eduardo Serrano, 97, Venezuelan musician, conductor and composer.
* Adam Watene, 31, Cook Islands rugby league player, heart attack.
* Christopher Wicking, 65, British screenwriter.

### 14

* Barrington J. Bayley, 71, British science fiction author, complications of colorectal cancer.
* Richard Cooey, 41, American convicted murderer, executed by lethal injection.
* Robert Furman, 93, American spy during World War II, foreign intelligence chief for Manhattan Project, metastatic melanoma.
* Antonio Iannucci, 94, Italian archbishop of Pescara-Penne (1959–1990).
* Ray Lowry, 64, British cartoonist and illustrator, after long illness.
* Anne Mackenzie-Stuart, 78, British political activist.
* Pat Moss, 73, British rally driver, cancer.
* Martin Peake, 2nd Viscount Ingleby, 82, British peer, activist for the disabled.
* Kazys Petkevičius, 82, Lithuanian basketball player and coach.
* Dame Daphne Purves, 99, New Zealand educator.

### 15

* Edie Adams, 81, American actress (Li'l Abner, It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World, The Apartment), Tony winner (1957), pneumonia and cancer.
* Fazıl Hüsnü Dağlarca, 94, Turkish poet, chronic renal failure.
* Nathan Davis, 91, American actor (Thief, Holes, Risky Business).
* Chris Mims, 38, American football player.
* Jack Narz, 85, American game show host (Concentration), complications from strokes.
* Suzzanna, 66, Indonesian actress, complications of diabetes.
* Eddie Thompson, 68, British businessman, chairman of Dundee United, prostate cancer.
* Des Townson, 74, New Zealand yacht designer, cancer.
* Tom Tresh, 70, American baseball player (New York Yankees, Detroit Tigers), heart attack.
* Roderick Walker, 76, British SAS commander.
* Wang Yung-ching, 91, Taiwanese entrepreneur and billionaire, founder of Formosa Plastics.

### 16

* Germán Abad Valenzuela, 89, Ecuadorian radiologist.
* Ere Kokkonen, 70, Finnish film director, after illness.
* David Lee, 70, Canadian sound engineer.
* Paul L. Montgomery, 72, American journalist and reporter (The New York Times), cancer.
* Dagmar Normet, 87, Estonian writer and translator.
* Jack Reynolds, 71, American professional wrestling announcer (WWWF/WWF), complications from surgery.

### 17

* George M. Keller, 84, American oil executive, founder of Chevron Corporation, complications from orthopedic surgery.
* Prince Ludwig of Bavaria, 95, German prince, member of the House of Wittelsbach.
* Urmas Ott, 53, Estonian journalist and television host, heart attack.
* Santo Bartolomeo Quadri, 88, Italian archbishop of Modena-Nonantola (1983–1996).
* Bill Reilly, 70, American publisher, founder of Primedia, bone and prostate cancer.
* Levi Stubbs, 72, American vocalist (The Four Tops), complications of cancer and stroke.
* Nick Weatherspoon, 58, American basketball player, natural causes.
* Ben Weider, 85, Canadian bodybuilding promoter and Napoleon scholar.

### 18

* Raymond Delacy Adams, 97, American neurologist and neuropathologist, heart failure.
* Daniel Aguillón, 24, Mexican boxer, brain death caused by knockout.
* Evelyn Ay Sempier, 75, American beauty pageant winner, Miss America (1954), colorectal cancer.
* Salvatore Boccaccio, 70, Italian bishop of Frosinone-Veroli-Ferentino.
* Albert Boime, 75, American art historian, myelofibrosis.
* Alfredo E. Evangelista, 82, Filipino archaeologist, discovered the Laguna Copperplate Inscription.
* Charley Fox, 88, Canadian pilot credited with strafing Erwin Rommel's car, car accident.
* Peter Gordeno, 69, British actor, singer and dancer.
* Tormod Haugen, 63, Norwegian children's author, after long illness.
* E. K. Mawlong, 62, Indian politician, Chief Minister of Meghalaya (2000–2001).
* Dave McKenna, 78, American jazz pianist, lung cancer.
* Ralph Hanover, 28, Standardbred colt, euthanized.
* James J. Rhoades, 66, American politician, member of the Pennsylvania State Senate since 1981, car accident.
* Dee Dee Warwick, 66, American soul singer, sister of Dionne Warwick, after long illness.
* Xie Jin, 84, Chinese film director.

### 19

* Nazir Ahmed, 93, Indian scholar, writer, and teacher.
* Richard Blackwell, 86, American fashion critic ("Mr. Blackwell's Ten Worst Dressed Women"), intestinal infection.
* John A. Campbell, 67, Australian-born American lumber executive, president and CEO of Pacific Lumber Company, cancer.
* Tony Dean, 67, American outdoors broadcaster, complications from appendectomy.
* Marilyn Ferguson, 70, American writer (The Aquarian Conspiracy), heart attack.
* Hal Kant, 77, American lawyer for the Grateful Dead, pancreatic cancer.
* Lia Maivia, 81, Samoan wrestling promoter, wife of Peter Maivia, grandmother of Dwayne Johnson.
* Harry T. Mangurian, Jr., 82, American businessman and horse breeder, former owner of the Boston Celtics, leukemia.
* Mireille Marokvia, 99, French writer.
* Rudy Ray Moore, 81, American comedian and actor (Dolemite), complications from diabetes.
* Robert B. Nett, 86, American Medal of Honor recipient, after brief illness.
* Nigel Plews, 74, British cricket umpire, renal cancer.
* Gianni Raimondi, 85, Italian lyric tenor.
* Gail Robinson, 62, American soprano, complications from rheumatoid arthritis.
* Arthur Sendas, 72, Brazilian supermarket magnate, shot.
* Lou Stringer, 91, American baseball player (Chicago Cubs and Boston Red Sox).
* Doreen Wilber, 78, American archer, 1972 Olympic gold medallist, Alzheimer's disease.

### 20

* Emmanuelle Cinquin, 99, French religious sister, natural causes.
* Shamsiah Fakeh, 84, Malaysian independence activist, lung infection.
* Vittorio Foa, 98, Italian politician, journalist and writer.
* James Gleeson, 92, Australian art critic and surrealist painter.
* William Headline, 76, American CNN bureau chief, fall.
* Gene Hickerson, 73, American football player (Cleveland Browns) and member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame, after long illness.
* Pat Kavanagh, 68, British literary agent, wife of Julian Barnes, brain tumour.
* Joe Lutz, 83, American baseball player (St. Louis Browns), after long illness.
* David Myers, 37, British rugby league player (Widnes and England), car accident.
* John Ringham, 80, British actor.
* Bobi Sourander, 79, Finnish-born Swedish journalist and author.
* C. V. Sridhar, 73, Indian filmmaker, cardiac arrest.
* Krzysztof Zaleski, 60, Polish actor, after long illness.

### 21

* Muhammad Abdullah, 76, Bangladeshi academic.
* Sonja Bernadotte, 64, German-born Swedish countess, breast cancer.
* Alex Close, 86, Belgian road bicycle racer, winner of Tour of Belgium (1955) and Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré (1956).
* Jake Crawford, 80, American Major League Baseball player.
* George Edwards, 87, British footballer (Wales).
* Richard J. Keane, 75, American politician, member of the New York State Assembly.
* Peter Levinson, 74, American music industry biographer, fall.
* Ram Ruhee, 81, Mauritian founder of the National Olympic Committee, IOC member, after long illness.
* James John Skinner, 85, Irish-born Zambian jurist and politician.

### 22

* Robert Adlard, 92, British Olympic silver medal-winning (1948) field hockey player.
* Robert C. Cannon, 91, American jurist.
* William Warren Conolly, 87, Caymanian politician.
* Lou Dorfsman, 90, American television graphic designer, heart failure.
* David Evans, 73, British politician, MP (1987–1997), cancer.
* Jan Hijzelendoorn, 79, Dutch Olympic cyclist.
* Ernest Kombo, 67, Congolese bishop of Owando, cancer.
* David Lloyd Meredith, 74, British actor.
* Paritosh Sen, 90, Indian artist, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.

### 23

* Gianluigi Braschi, 45, Italian film producer (Life Is Beautiful), after long illness.
* Derek Brewer, 85, British mediaevalist.
* Oszkár Csuvik, 83, Hungarian water polo player, Olympic silver medalist (1948).
* Danny Dill, 83, American songwriter ("Long Black Veil").
* Kevin Finnegan, 60, British former European middleweight champion boxer.
* E. Roger Muir, 89, American television producer, stroke.
* Ivo Pukanić, 47, Croatian newspaper editor, assassination by car bomb.
* F. W. Walbank, 98, British scholar of Greek history.

### 24

* Moshe Cotel, 65, American pianist and composer, natural causes.
* Howard French, 95, British newspaper editor.
* Milton Katselas, 74, American film director, heart failure.
* Premasiri Khemadasa, 71, Sri Lankan musician and composer.
* Geoffrey McLean, 77, British police officer.
* Merl Saunders, 74, American keyboardist (The Grateful Dead), complications from a stroke.
* Xiao Ke, 101, Chinese general in the People's Liberation Army, illness.
* Helmut Zilk, 81, Austrian politician, Mayor of Vienna (1984–1994), heart failure.

### 25

* John Axon, 48, British actor (The Royal), grandson of John Axon, heart attack.
* Allen Blanchard, 79, Australian politician.
* Gerard Damiano, 80, American adult film director (Deep Throat), stroke.
* Colm Farrelly, 55, Irish record producer who discovered Sinéad O'Connor and The Pale, after short illness.
* Bob Gambold, 79, American football player (Los Angeles Rams, Philadelphia Eagles).
* Irwin Gunsalus, 96, American biochemist, heart failure.
* Amos E. Joel, Jr., 90, American inventor, pioneer of the cellphone.
* Federico Luzzi, 28, Italian tennis player, leukemia.
* Muslim Magomayev, 66, Azerbaijani singer.
* Ian McColl, 81, British footballer, team manager for Scotland, natural causes.
* Anne Pressly, 26, American television news anchor (KATV), injuries during home invasion.
* Regal Intention, 23, Canadian Champion Thoroughbred racehorse.
* Estelle Reiner, 94, American singer and actress (When Harry Met Sally...).
* Hal Roth, 81, American sailor and author, lung cancer.
* Tahereh Saffarzadeh, 72, Iranian poet and academic, cancer.
* Maurice Stonefrost, 81, British civil servant.

### 26

* Abu Ghadiya, 29-30, Syrian militant, shot.
* Delfino Borroni, 110, Italian last known World War I veteran from Italy.
* Gábor Delneky, 76, Hungarian Olympic fencer.
* P. Cameron DeVore, 76, American First Amendment attorney, apparent heart attack.
* Eileen Donaghy, 78, Irish singer, cancer.
* Thomas Dunn, 82, American conductor, heart failure.
* Tony Hillerman, 83, American mystery writer, pulmonary failure.
* S. D. Jones, 63, Antiguan professional wrestler, stroke.
* Pablo Montes, 62, Cuban athlete, heart attack.
* Delmar Watson, 82, American child actor (Mr. Smith Goes to Washington), prostate cancer.

### 27

* Dean Barnett, 41, American columnist and blogger, complications from cystic fibrosis.
* Chris Bryant, 72, British screenwriter and actor.
* Richard Carr-Gomm, 86, British soldier and philanthropist.
* Charles Dubin, 87, Canadian Chief Justice of Ontario (1990–1996), head of the Dubin Inquiry into drugs in sport, pneumonia.
* Ray Ellis, 85, American musician, conductor and television producer, complications from melanoma.
* Jack Houston, 90, Australian politician, member of the Legislative Assembly of Queensland (1957–1980).
* Karl Kassulke, 67, American football player (Minnesota Vikings), heart attack.
* Heinz Krügel, 87, German footballer and coach, after long illness.
* Ed Levy, 91, American baseball player (Philadelphia Phillies, New York Yankees).
* Es'kia Mphahlele, 88, South African writer and academic, natural causes.
* Frank Nagai, 76, Japanese singer.
* Bernard W. Rogers, 87, American general, Commander of the US European Command (1979–1987).
* Louis Secco, 81, Canadian Olympic gold medal-winning (1952) ice hockey player.
* Roy Stewart, 83, Jamaican-born British actor (Live and Let Die, Doctor Who).
* Andy Young, 83, Scottish footballer (Raith Rovers).

### 28

* Buck Adams, 52, American pornographic actor and director, complications from heart failure.
* Dina Cocea, 95, Romanian actress, heart attack.
* Kung Te-cheng, 88, Chinese-born Taiwanese 77th generation descendant of Confucius, heart and respiratory failure.
* Alexander Lowen, 97, American psychotherapist.
* Bill Martin, 65, American realist painter, complications of lymphoma.
* Eric Nenno, 47, American murderer and sex offender, execution by lethal injection.
* Pak Song-chol, 95, North Korean politician, Premier (1976–1977), after long illness.
* Paul Pesthy, 70, American Olympic modern pentathlete and fencer.
* Augusto Petró, 90, Brazilian bishop of Uruguaiana (1964–1995), complications from Alzheimer's disease.
* John Ripley, 69, American Marine war hero.
* Allan Scott, 85, Australian businessman and road transport magnate, complications from diabetes and heart condition.
* George Sopkin, 94, American cellist, natural causes.
* Ilus Vay, 85, Hungarian actress.

### 29

* William Addison, 74, American chess player.
* Shirwa Ahmed, 26, Somali-American bomber, detonation.
* Gerald Arpino, 85, American dancer and choreographer, after long illness.
* Mike Baker, 45, American singer (Shadow Gallery), heart attack.
* Cor Brom, 76, Dutch footballer and coach, Parkinson's disease.
* Anita Ellis, 88, Canadian-born American singer and actress, complications from Alzheimer's disease. (Death announced on this date).
* Yiannis Koskiniatis, 25, Greek footballer, suicide by jumping.
* Mae Mercer, 76, American blues singer.
* William Wharton, 82, American painter and novelist (Birdy), infection.

### 30

* Edith Evans Asbury, 98, American journalist (The New York Times), after long illness.
* Fred Baron, 61, American trial lawyer and political fundraiser, multiple myeloma.
* Robert H. Barrow, 86, American general, 27th Commandant of the Marine Corps (1979–1983).
* Cundo Bermúdez, 94, Cuban artist.
* Valentin Bubukin, 75, Russian footballer, after long illness.
* John Cuckney, Baron Cuckney, 83, British financier and industrialist.
* David Jeaffreson, 76, British colonial official, Hong Kong Secretary for Security (1982–1988), ICAC Commissioner (1988–1991).
* Tom Moody, 78, American politician. Mayor of Columbus, Ohio (1972–1984).
* Julius Neave, 89, British insurance executive.

### 31

* Jonathan Bates, 68, British sound engineer (Gandhi, Flash Gordon, Cry Freedom).
* John Daly, 71, British film producer, cancer.
* Frank Navetta, 46, American guitarist (Descendents).
* Sir John Page, 89, British politician, MP for Harrow West (1960–1987).
* John Pearse, 69, British guitarist.
* Studs Terkel, 96, American broadcaster and author (The Good War), complications from a fall.